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Pirates hijack three fishing vessels off Somali coast
(SomaliNet) Three Finnish fishing vessels have been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia's semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland, a maritime official said on Thursday.
"Yar, Gimme them fish, y'swab!"
"We are still investigating the nationality and the number of the crew as well as the ownership of the vessels," Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers Assistance Programme, said.

Mwangura said an unspecified number of gunmen hijacked the boats early on Wednesday. Generally, pirate attacks have increased in recent weeks off the coast of Somalia after dying out during six months of strict Islamist rule in southern and central Somalia at the end of last year. Between March 2005 and June last year, there were scores of pirate attacks in the unpatrolled waters off the 3 700-kilometre Somali coastline.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-04
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